I downloaded the latest version of Sabayon (5.3) to install on my brand new PC. I booted up the live CD with no problem and I clicked on the install sabayon icon. Everything went well when I arrived at the screen "Please select a device". The notes on installation are a little sketchy at best, I saw some ticks in the format column and I thought that meant that everything had been selected correctly. so I clicked on next and went on with installation and when it started to install that is when the errors started. It said that there was a problem and stoppped the installation.

Did I do something wrong? The installtion manual really didn't make any obvious mention of this stage.

That's the whole point. There was no installation. it bombed out as soon as I tried to install. I got passed all the stages where you select things and then bang, it bombed out as soon as it started to install. So there are no files to obtain.

The issues are one of the same. Because the installer crashes almost immediately, it writes enough so it overwrites a small amount of previous distro that was installed, which when you log on you're left with an error with grub when you log on. Because I can now only get into my windows account, I cannot access any of what is on my linux drive.

If the installer crashes, of course you will not be able to boot up Sabayon as it is not installed properly. You can however boot up the live disk and access your linux information.

You haven't mentioned if you verified the md5sum or the burn. You haven't even stated which Sabayon Linux 5.3 you downloaded. Did you try just using text installer from the boot up menu instead of booting to a desktop?

Even if the installer crashes you can still get the anaconda.log and dmesg via terminal like pastebunz /tmp/anaconda.log and pastebunz /tmp/dmesg that will return to you a couple urls with the information. You have to do this before you shutdown the live disk tho as it will be wiped out. Another thing you can do is tail the log files with something like tail -f /tmp/anaconda.log right after you start up the installer.

You can also try updating the installer via terminal as root: liveinst-update-quick than try installing it.

So in your next post I would like to see:Which Sabayon Linux are you running – x86, x86_64, gnome, kde, core ?How to reproduce the issue? Give us the steps on what you did to get the issue(s) so we can try and reproduce it.Any and All Log files that pertain to the issue.Hardware List - lspci will give u thatverify md5 and burn or using flash drive via unetbootindid you try just text install from boot menudid you run as root liveinst-update-quick

The more information you can give the better and it cuts down on the post tag and saves everyone time. Good Luck